soundsxp.com writers poll:
Albums
1. Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Pains of Being Pure at Heart2. Grizzly Bear – Vecktamist3. Micachu - Jewellery4. The Horrors - Primary Colours5. The XX - XX6. Port O’Brien – Threadbare7. Fanfarlo - Reservoir8. Let’s Wrestle - In the Court of the Wrestling Let’s9. Future of the Left – Travels With Myself and Another10. Mumford and Sons - Sigh No More11. Sin Fang Bous - Clangour12. Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca13. Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career14. Darren Hayman and the Secondary Modern - Pram Town15. Titus Andronicus - The Airing of Grievances16. Cate Le Bon - Me Oh My17. Manic Street Preachers – Journal for Plague Lovers18. 6 Day Riot - 6 Day Riot Have A Plan19. Tyvek - s/t20. God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl
Singles
1. Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Fiction2. The Humms – Are You Dead?3. Mumford and Sons – Little Lion Man4. The Rayographs - Francis5. Fergus & Geronimo - Harder Than It’s Ever Been6. Hockey - Too Fake7. The Magic Kids - Hey Boy8. God Help The Girl – Come Monday Night9. Exlovers - Photobooth10. Allo, Darlin' - Henry Rollins Don't Dance11. Passion Pit – Chunk of Change EP12. Betty and the Werewolves - David Cassidy13. Animal Collective - My Girls14. The Horrors - Sea Within A Sea15. The School - And Suddenly16. Wavves – So Bored17. Nodzzz - Is She There18. Micachu & the Shapes – Lips19. Race Horses - Cake20. The Breeders - Fate Not Fatal
― tacoma chameleon (electricsound), Tuesday, 29 December 2009 22:05 (fourteen years ago) link
Sherbrooke, December 29, 2009 — The demanding music radio show Délire Actuel (CFLX-FM, Sherbrooke, Quebec) unveiled today its top 30 experimental music albums you shouldn’t have missed in 2009. This list culls 30 titles, the 2009 crème de la crème in demanding music, i.e. the avant-gardist or experimental fringe in every music genre (contemporary, avant-garde jazz, free improvisation, avant-rock, electronica, etc.).
“What I call demanding music covers the notions of experimental music, avant-garde music, innovative music, musique actuelle, etc.,” explained François Couture, producer of the show. “Obviously, I haven’t heard everything released in 2009! So, I am not pretending that these are THE best records of the year, but they are MY best 30 records of the year. And, since they were selected from somewhere around 6000 submissions, I hope that the artists and record labels can find a little pride in appearing on this Top 30.”
Délire Actuel’s 2009 Demanding Music Top 30http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2009/12/le-top-30-des-musiques-exigeantes-2009.html
1. Henry Cow The Road: Volumes 1-5 + Volumes 6-10 ReR Megacorp
2. Magma Ëmëhntëtt-Rê Seventh Records
3. Supersilent 9 Rune Grammofon
4. Vainio, Mika Aíneen Musta Puhelin (Black Telephone of Matter) Touch
5. Kreng L’autopsie phénoménale de Dieu MIasmah
6. Bouhalassa, Ned Gratte-cité empreintes DIGITALes
7. Furt Sense Psi
8. Derome, Jean Plates-formes et traquenards Disques Victo
9. Dixon, Bill Tapestries for Small Orchestra Firehouse 12
10. Miriodor Avanti! Cuneiform
11. Alva Noto - Ryuchi Sakamoto - Ensemble Modern Utp_ Raster-Noton
12. Brady, Tim My 20th Century Ambiances Magnétiques
13. Victor Ensemble, Fay The Freesong Suite Greene Avenue Music
14. Hildegard lernt fliegen ...vom fernen Kern der Sache Unit Records
15. Rubin, Justin Nostalgia Innova Recordings
16. Vialka Succès planétaire international Vialka
17. Speak Easy Backchats Creative Sources
18. Quatuor Bozzini Hozhro Collection QB
19. Kinit Her Glyms or Beame of Radicall Truthes Hinterzimmer Records
20. Led Bib Sensible Shoes Cuneiform
21. Rothkamm ALT Baskaru
22. Rodéoscopique Rodéoscopique Audiogram
23. Mirthkon Vehicle AltrOck
24. Rupp, Olaf - Marino Pliakas - Michael Wertmüller Too Much is Not Enough FMP
25. Pateras, Anthony - Robin Fox End of Daze Editions Mego
26. Jones Trio, Darius Man’ish Boy (A Raw & Beautiful Thing) AUM Fidelity
27. MC Maguire Trash of Civilizations Innova Recordings
28. Agnel, Sophie Capsizing Moments Emanem
29. Mezei Wind Quartet, Szilárd We Were Watching the Rain Leo Records
30. Martin, Aaron Chautauqua Preservation
― djmartian, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 12:11 (fourteen years ago) link
Demanding formatting.
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 14:10 (fourteen years ago) link
I've never heard of Demanding Formatting. Are they on Ghost Box?
― Doran, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 15:03 (fourteen years ago) link
re: Demanding formatting.
see the link, the artists are in boldhttp://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2009/12/le-top-30-des-musiques-exigeantes-2009.html
― djmartian, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
Thanks. I did not mean it as a serious complaint.
AAJ is now starting to post its EOY lists:
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=35090http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=35149http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=35115http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=35091
― _Rudipherous_, Wednesday, 30 December 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Time Out New York writers' lists:http://newyork.timeout.com/articles/music/81522/best-and-worst-music-of-2009
― o. nate, Thursday, 31 December 2009 15:08 (fourteen years ago) link
i love those guys, but some of those lists are really wha?
― lazy cold meat and chocolate seasonal mentality (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 31 December 2009 15:10 (fourteen years ago) link
Terrorizer Top 40 Albums of 2009
so another Terrorizer album of the year award goes to Converge
1: Converge - Axe To Fall2: Cobalt - Gin3: Kylesa - Static Tensions4: Blut aus Nord - Memoria Vetusta II: Dialogue With the Stars5: Napalm Death - Time Waits No Slave6: Mastodon - Crack The Skye7: Megadeth – Endgame8: Agoraphobic Nosebleed - Agorapocalypse9: Funeral Mist - Maranatha10: Immortal - All Shall Fall11: Drudkh - Microcosmos12: Beherit - Engram13: Portal - Swarth14: Sunn o))) - Monoliths & Dimensions15: Marduk - Wormwood16: Absu - Absu17: Tombs - Winter Hours18: Burnt By The Sun - Heart Of Darkness19: Heaven & Hell - The Devil You Know20: Anaal Nathrakh - In The Constellation Of The Black Widow21: Arckanum - ÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞÞ22: Baroness - Blue Record23: Madder Mortem - Eight Ways24: The Devil's Blood - The Time of No Time Evermore25: Archgoat - the Light Devouring Darkness26: Shining - VI - Klagopsalmer27: Candlemass - Death Magic Doom28: Hacride - Lazarus29: Fuckpig - Spewings from A Selfish Nation30: Amorphis - Skyforger31: Brutal Truth - Evolution Through Revolution32: Grey Machine - Disconnected33: Behemoth - Evangelion34: Unanimated - In the Light of Darkness35: Obscura - Cosmogenesis36: Gnaw Their Tongues - All the Dread Magnificence of Perversity37: Shrinebuilder - S/T38: Teitanblood - Seven Chalices39: Gorgoroth - Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt40: Evile - Infected Nations
― djmartian, Thursday, 31 December 2009 15:15 (fourteen years ago) link
After a year of tweets...
My Top 100 records of 2009: http://bit.ly/5x6xPv
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 31 December 2009 15:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I like that one of them has the Tanya Morgan album at #1. I feel that one hasn't gotten enough love in these year-end lists.
― o. nate, Thursday, 31 December 2009 15:34 (fourteen years ago) link
props for listing that 8ball album xp
― deej, Thursday, 31 December 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
props for not taking me to task for my placement of gucci mane ;)
― Results 1 - 10 of about 28,300 for mountain goat man cock (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 31 December 2009 16:11 (fourteen years ago) link
eh its cool no need for miranda lambert fans to dilute the fanbase
― deej, Thursday, 31 December 2009 16:21 (fourteen years ago) link
The Terrorizer readers' poll is hysterical - Behemoth won literally 10 or 11 of 13 or 14 'best' categories and their album just scraped into the writers' top 40
― Ferry Aid was a popular appeal and it still is (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 31 December 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
thats the readers for you. its the same with Kerrang. The readers polls are always totally different and much lamer than the writers polls.
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 31 December 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
though the Kerrang writers polls are totally lame now mostly too
― Pfunkboy : The Dronelord vs The Girly Metal Daleks (Herman G. Neuname), Thursday, 31 December 2009 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
glad somebody else remembers scale-a-ton!
― lazy cold meat and chocolate seasonal mentality (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 31 December 2009 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
METACRITICS' Top-Albums List:
Will 2009 go down as the least memorable year in music of the past decade? Despite having many more albums to choose from (Metacritic scored 892 albums this year, up from 805 last year and well up from the 400-600 per year we averaged in earlier years), not a single qualifying new studio album achieved a score of 90 or above — the first time in our 10-year history that has happened. And only six of the 100 highest-scoring albums of the past decade were released in 2009.* * * *Having said that (sorry, Larry David), at least there’s a chance you may have heard of our top-ranking album of 2009, which cannot always be said about our year-end high score lists. Animal Collective may not be a household name, but in indie music circles, their whimsical landmark Merriweather Post Pavilion actually qualifies as a high-profile release. With a Metascore of 89, it’s our top album of 2009, and it’s one that people could still be listening to in the years to come.
* * * *
Having said that (sorry, Larry David), at least there’s a chance you may have heard of our top-ranking album of 2009, which cannot always be said about our year-end high score lists. Animal Collective may not be a household name, but in indie music circles, their whimsical landmark Merriweather Post Pavilion actually qualifies as a high-profile release. With a Metascore of 89, it’s our top album of 2009, and it’s one that people could still be listening to in the years to come.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 1 January 2010 03:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Amazingly (esp. given it was never released here) and at least partly due to my uncontrollable stanning, my local mag made "Inflation" number 2 song of 2009 (behind "Empire State of Mind").
― Tim F, Friday, 1 January 2010 13:22 (fourteen years ago) link
wow. nice.
― art crut (The Reverend), Friday, 1 January 2010 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
When is the Pazz & Jop list coming out?
― David Katz (davek_00), Friday, 1 January 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link
Usually comes out around the beginning of february iirc
― art crut (The Reverend), Friday, 1 January 2010 23:31 (fourteen years ago) link
results will be published in print and online the week of January 18th
― Queef Latina (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 2 January 2010 00:06 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.villagevoice.com/2009-12-29/music/2009-voice-jazz-critics-poll-the-results
The Village Voice's jazz critics poll results are out(plus they also listed separately fave jazz vocals and Latin-jazz)
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 2 January 2010 05:47 (fourteen years ago) link
for those who liked my last year's rundown...i wrote one for my spanking-new blog here: www.soundclash.wordpress.comwould be interested in any thoughts/suggestions/complaints!
― cybeleagain, Sunday, 3 January 2010 21:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Pitchfork may not want a column anymore, but good to see you're blogging a rundown.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 4 January 2010 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Brainwashed readers' poll results are out. Top ten is un-fucking-touchable.
Sunn O)))Current 93Tim HeckerOmSix Organs of AdmittanceEmeraldsNurse with WoundAntony and the JohnsonsFever RayNurse with Wound (yes, again)
Full results at http://brainwashed.com.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:17 (fourteen years ago) link
2. Pavement Ist Rad & The Lots Of People Posting All Starr Band (Feat. Trai'd) - Sing Vampire Weekend's Contra
what on earth is this?
― Kate 'Impeach' Bush (Future_Perfect), Monday, 4 January 2010 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
what the fuck is LOPP
― s1oc'd after dark (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 4 January 2010 20:09 (fourteen years ago) link
just went to their board, this is the first post on it.
Just ate Chun Li's pussyPost by ROBERTO 2000 on Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:29 amsince she's chinese, i'll probably be hungry again in an hour!
Post by ROBERTO 2000 on Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:29 amsince she's chinese, i'll probably be hungry again in an hour!
thank u mitchell sterling for bringing this to our attention
― s1oc'd after dark (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 4 January 2010 20:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm posting this because the mixes are all available for download. My top 10 electronic albums and mixes of 2009: http://www.avclub.com/articles/january-2010,36676/
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Monday, 4 January 2010 20:16 (fourteen years ago) link
Linked in the piece, I mean. And I want you to hear them! They're awesome.
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Monday, 4 January 2010 20:18 (fourteen years ago) link
lopp is late of the pier
― mr bollock apple (electricsound), Monday, 4 January 2010 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
Philip Sherburne
http://phs.abstractdynamics.org/2010/01/ranking_2009_albums.html
1. Sunn O))), Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)2. The xx, xx (Young Turks)3. Emeralds, What Happened (No Fun)4. Black to Comm, Alphabet 1968 (Type)5. Benzo, The Dust/The Tapes: Mania Remixes (Sex Tags Mania / Laton)6. Demdike Stare, Symbiosis (Modern Love)7. Kevin Drumm, Imperial Horizon (Hospital Productions)8. Lukid, Foma (Werk)9. Moritz von Oswald Trio, Vertical Ascent (Honest Jon's)10. Monolake, Silence (ml/I)
11. Pepe Bradock, Confiote de Bits (K7)12. September Collective, Always Breathing Monster (Mosz)13. Beak>, Recordings (Invada)14. Mapstation, The Africa Chamber (~scape)15. Ben Frost, By the Throat (Bedroom Community)16. Ethernet, 144 Pulsations of Light (Kranky)17. Fuck Buttons, Tarot Sport (ATP)18. Fever Ray, Fever Ray (Rabid)19. Mocky, Saskamodie (Crammed)20. DJ Sprinkles, Midtown 120 Blues (Mule)
21. Atom TM, Liedgut (Raster Noton)22. Vladislav Delay, Tummaa (Huume)23. Jon Hassell, The Moon Dropped… (ECM)24. Elm, Nemcatacoa (Digitalis)25. Lokai, Transition (Mosz)26. Grizzly Bear, Veckatimest (Warp)27. Pixel, The Drive (Raster Noton)28. Redshape, The Dance Paradox (Delsin)29. Shackleton, Three EPs (Perlon)30. Ras G, Brotha From Anotha Planet (Brainfeeder)
― djmartian, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 00:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Phonica Records' top 100 - decent list imo
100. JOE GODDARD : Harvest Festival GRECOROMAN99. MARKUS GUENTNER : Doppelgaenger SENDING ORBS98. LUCIANO : Tribute To The Sun CADENZA97. WHITE DENIM : Fits FULL TIME HOBBY96. VARIOUS ARTISTS : Tumbele SOUNDWAY95. WILD BEASTS : Two Dancers DOMINO94. HERVE : Ghetto Bass CHEAP THRILLS93. VARIOUS ARTISTS : Ghana Special SOUNDWAY92. HILDUR GUDNADOTTIR : Without Sinking TOUCH91. BLACKJOY : Edits Vol. II LUCIEN ENTERTAINMENT
90. SUPER VALUE : Super Soul Special Edits SUPER VALUE89. VARIOUS : 10th Anniversary TRU THOUGHTS88. A MOUNTAIN OF ONE : Institute Of Joy AMO187. LUKE VIBERT : We Hear You PANET MU86. FAT FREDDYS DROP : Dr Boondigga and... THE DROP85. NATHAN FAKE : Hard Islands BORDER COMMUNITY84. HARMONIC 313 : When Machines Exceed... WARP83. THE JUAN MACLEAN : The Future Will Come DFA82. DISCOVERY : Discovery XL RECORDINGS81. DJ KOZE : Reincarnations GET PHYSICAL MUSIC 80. TAMA SUMO : Panorama Bar 02 OSTGUT TON79. MARCEL DETTMANN : Berghain 02 OSTGUT TON78. SVEN WEISEMANN : Xine WANDERING77. WILL SAUL : Balance 015 EQ RECORDINGS76. NATURAL YOGURT BAND : Away with... NOW AGAIN75. RADIO SLAVE : Fabric 48 FABRIC74. JAY Z & RADIOHEAD : Jaydiohead MINTY FRESH BEATS73. JAMES PANTS : The Electric Finger 2 LIGER VISION72. VARIOUS : Five Years Of Hyperdub HYPERDUB71. TOM TRAGO : Voyage Direct RUSH HOUR
70. QUANTIC : Tradition in Transition TRU THOUGHTS69. IRON AND WINE : Around The Well SUB POP68. LLOYD MILLER : A Lifetime In Oriental Jazz JAZZMAN67. PHOENIX : Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix V266. MICACHU : Jewellery ROUGH TRADE65. DIRTY PROJECTORS : Bitte Orca DOMINO64. JAMES PANTS : Seven Seals STONES THROW63. MONOLAKE : Silence MONOLAKE / IMBALANCE62. MATIAS AGUAYO : Ay Ay Ay KOMPAKT61. DEMDIKE STARE : Symbiosis DEMDIKE STARE 60. MORITZ VON OSWALD : Vertical Ascent HONEST JONS59. LAWRENCE : Until Then Goodbye MULE ELECTRONIQUE58. WASHED OUT : Life Of Leisure MEXICAN SUMMER57. WILLIAM BASINSKI : 92982 206256. SILKIE : City Limits Volume 1 DEEP MEDI MUSIK55. PAUL WHITE : The Strange Dreams Of... ONE HANDED54. RSD : Good Energy PUNCH DRUNK53. SHACKLETON : Three EPs PERLON52. DESIRE : II ITALIANS DO IT BETTER51. BAT FOR LASHES : Two Suns EMI
50. THE VERY BEST : Warm heart of Africa MOSHI MOSHI49. DIMITRI FROM PARIS : Night Dubbin' BBE48. MAGDA : Fabric 49 FABRIC47. TELEPATHE : Dance Mother V246. YACHT : See Mystery Lights DFA45. THE FIELD : Yesterday and Today KOMPAKT44. DOOM : Born Like This LEX RECORDS43. HUDSON MOHAWKE : Butter WARP42. MEANDERTHALS : Desire Lines SMALLTOWNSUPER...41. MATTHEW BURGESS & JOLYON GREEN : Originals 40. JORIS VOORN : Balance 014 EQ RECORDINGS39. GREG WILSON : Credit to the Edit Volume 2 TIRK38. JAMIE JONES : Don't You ... CROSSTOWN REBELS37. DANIEL WANG : Balihu 1993 - 2008 RUSH HOUR36. MODERAT : Moderat BPITCH CONTROL35. HORSE MEAT DISCO : Horse Meat Disco STRUT34. KINGS OF CONVENIENCE : Declaration of... SOURCE33. SUBWAY : Subway II SOUL JAZZ32. FUCK BUTTONS : Tarot Sport ATP RECORDS31. MAJOR LAZER: Guns Don't Kill People... MAD DECENT
30. FEVER RAY : Fever Ray RABID29. VLADISLAV DELAY : Tummaa LEAF28. DANGERMOUSE & SPARKLEHORSE : Dark Night...27. PEVERELIST : Jarvik Mindstate PUNCH DRUNK26. PEPE BRADOCK : Confiote De Bits BBE25. THE CREPES : What Else? INFORMATION24. FONTAN : Winterhwila INFORMATION23. DAM FUNK : Toeachizown STONES THROW22. REAGENZ : Playtime WORKSHOP21. GRIZZLY BEAR : Veckatimest WARP 20. 3 CHAIRS : Spectrum 3 CHAIRS19. GOLF CHANNEL : Try To Find Me Vol. 218. VARIOUS : LTJ In Bologna Dirty Old Music - Chapter 217. DJ SPRINKLES : Midtown 120 Blues MULE MUSIQ16. 2562 : Unbalance TECTONIC15. PORTICO QUARTET : Isla REAL WORLD14. DIXON : Temporary Secretary INNERVISIONS13. LINDSTROM & CHRISTABELLE : Real Life Is No Cool12. BIBIO : Ambivalence Avenue WARP11. LUSINE : A Certain Distance GHOSTLY INTERNATIONALLinkwood
10 LINKWOOD : System PRIME NUMBERS9 YAGYA : Rigning SENDING ORBS8 ZOMBY : One Foot Ahead Of The Other RAMP RECORDINGS7 OMAR S : Fabric 45 FABRIC6 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE : Merriweather Post Pavilion DOMINO5 ALEXANDER NUT : Rinse 08: Alexander Nut RINSE4 ANDRES : II MAHOGANI MUSIC3 TRUSME : In The Red FAT CITY2 MARTYN : Great Lengths 30241 THE XX : XX YOUNG TURKS
― Ferry Aid was a popular appeal and it still is (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 08:19 (fourteen years ago) link
on the off-chance anyone cares about mine:
http://rodneyjgreene.blogspot.com/2010/01/top-50-singles-2009.htmlhttp://rodneyjgreene.blogspot.com/2010/01/top-50-albums-2009.html
― swag the dog (The Reverend), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 08:29 (fourteen years ago) link
nope
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 January 2010 08:35 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't think so
― swag the dog (The Reverend), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 08:42 (fourteen years ago) link
i care! i thought pill's second mixtape was way better as a full-length than his first though, even if the first did have "trap goin' ham"
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 08:48 (fourteen years ago) link
i always find it interesting to see how the people who've been into the same music as me over the year end up ordering the same/similar items...though from experience, ordering music this year was a bit "luck of the draw" - i could reorder my own top 100 tracks in pretty much any permutation and they'd still make an acceptable sense. fyi--
http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/309538328/albums-09http://alexmacpherson.tumblr.com/post/309619543/tracks-09
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 08:50 (fourteen years ago) link
Both have "Trap Goin' Ham". I got bored with 4075 quicker than I did 4180. That may be due to familiarity breeding contempt, but I suspect it's more due to his more standard choice of freestyle beats and the lack of supporting tracks as good as "Bunkin'" or "The Work's Hard".
― swag the dog (The Reverend), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 08:52 (fourteen years ago) link
i think i like the way 4075 feels more fleshed out - its tracks aren't just abbreviated demonstrations of his talent but that talent funneled to song-length purpose. love "coastin", "ok dennn", "let me in", "glass", "we outside" especially.
also love the random beyoncé beat on each mixtape - first time i heard "trap jumpin" it actually took me half a verse to realise wtf it was.
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 08:59 (fourteen years ago) link
"OK Dennn" is prob my fave non-TGH track on 4075 but with about 4-5 exceptions, I prefer his skillz showcases to his more fleshed out songs, or at least they are slower to grab my attention.
― swag the dog (The Reverend), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 09:03 (fourteen years ago) link
LOPP is a spin-off board from the Sound Opinions one. The music results are not in the public section (not much is) I will try and get that changed for y'all.
The SOMB results are
Singleshttp://www.soundopinions.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=22458
1 Phoenix – 19012 Animal Collective - My Girls3 Phoenix - Lisztomania/Lisztomania (Alex Metric Remix)/Lisztomania (Clasixx Remix)4 Dirty Projectors - Stillness is the Move5 grizzly bear - Two Weeks/Two Weeks (Fred Falke Remix)6 Weezer - (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To 7 Bat for Lashes - Daniel 8 Jay-Z - Empire State of Mind (feat. Alicia Keys) 9 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Zero/Zero (RAC Remix) 10 Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes 11 Basement Jaxx - Raindrops12 The-Dream - Rockin’ That Thang 13 Shakira – She Wolf / Loba / She Wolf (Calvin Harris Remix)14 Kanye West – Paranoid 15 Grizzly Bear - While You Wait For The Others/While You Wait For The Others (feat. Michael McDonald)16 Taylor Swift – You Belong With Me 17 Annie - Songs Remind Me Of You18 Mount Kimbie - Maybes EP19 Camera Obscura - French Navy20 Animal Collective - Brothersport21 Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Young Adult Friction22 Yeah yeah Yeahs - Heads Will Roll23 Big Pink - Dominos24 Guido - Orchestral Lab / Way U Make Me Feel25 Burial / Four Tet - Moth / Wolf Cub26 DJ Quik & Kurupt - 9x's Outta 1027 Junior Boys - Hazel / Hazel (Ewan Pearson's Extended Remix)28 Neko Case - People Got A Lotta Nerve29 Darkstar - Aidy's Girl is a Computer / Aidy's Girl's A Computer (Kyle Hall Mix)30 Lily Allen - The Fear / Fag Hag / Kabul Shit31 Lady Gaga – Bad Romance32 Girls - Lust For Life / Life in San Francisco33 Joy Orbison - Hyph Mngo/Wet Look34 The-Dream - Walkin’ on the Moon (feat. Kanye West)35 Akron/Family - River36 Joker / DJ2000F & J Kamata - Digidesign / You Don't Know What Love Is37 Mount Kimbie - Sketch on Glass EP38 Washed Out - Feel It All Around / Feel It All Around (Toro Y Moi Remix)39 JJ - From Africa to Malaga40 Miley Cyrus - Party in the U.S.A.41 Miike Snow – Animal42 Metric – Gimme Sympathy43 Electrik Red - So Good44 Floating Points - Love Me Like This (Nonsense Dub)/ Shangrila45 Electrik Red - Friend Lover46 St. Vincent - Actor Out of Work / Bicycle47 Portishead - Chase the Tear48 Passion Pit - Sleepyhead 49 La Roux - Bulletproof / Bulletproof (Redial Remix)/Bulletproof (Fred Falke Remix)50 Passion Pit - The Reeling / The Reeling (Calvin Harris Remix) 51 Julian Casablancas - 11th Dimension 52 Royksopp - The Girl and the Robot 53 Atlas Sound - Walkabout 54 Thermals - Now We Can See55 Franz Ferdinand - No You girls/Lucid Dreams (Mike Fraser Mix)56 Metric - Help, I’m Alive 57 Handsome Furs - I’m Confused 58 Lady GaGa - Paparazzi 59 DJ Quik & Kurupt - Hey Playa! (Moroccan Blues)60 Annie - Anthonio 61 Yeasayer - Ambling Alp/Ambling Alp (Memory Tapes Remix)62 Fever Ray - When I Grow Up63 Akira Kiteshi - Pinball / Noglitch 64 Music Go Music - Warm in the Shadows65 Fuck Buttons - Surf Solar 66 Very Best - Warm Heart of Africa (feat. Ezra Koenig)/Warm Heart of Africa (Theophilus London Remix) 67 Drake - Best I Ever Had 68 Jay Reatard - It Ain't Gonna Save Me69 Major Lazer - Keep It Goin' Louder70 Arctic Monkeys - Cornerstone / Catapult / Sketchead / Fright Lined Dining Room 71 Matt and Kim - Daylight72 Passion Pit - Little Secrets73 Avett Brothers - I And Love And You 74 Baroness - A Horse Called Golgotha75 Converge - Axe to Fall76 Kings of Leon - Use Somebody/Use Somebody (RAC Remix)77 Japandroids - Young Hearts Spark Fire 78 Mariah Carey – Obsessed79 Lady Gaga – Poker Face 80 Maxwell - Prettywings 81 Mastodon - Oblivion 82 Keri Hilson - Knock Me Down (feat. Ne-Yo and Kanye West)83 Memory Tapes - Bicycle / Plain Material84 Holy Ghost! - I Will Come Back/I Will Come Back (CLASSIXX Remix) 85 xx – Crystalised / Hot Like Fire 86 Raekwon - House of Flying Daggers (feat. Inspectah Deck, GZA, Ghostface Killah & Method Man) 87 Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You88 Delorean - Ayrton Senna EP (Deli / Seasun / Big Dipper / Moonson) 89 Antlers - Two 90 Florence + the Machine - You've Got the Love / You've Got The Love (the xx Remix) 91 Morrissey - I'm Throwing my Arms Around Paris92 Addleboy Vs. Cliff - Beep My Beep 93 The-Dream - Sweat it out94 Flight of the Conchords - Hurt Feelings 95 Micachu & the Shapes - Golden Phone96 La Roux - In For The Kill/In For The Kill (Skream's Let's Get Ravey Remix)/In For The Kill (The Twelves Remix)97 Pet Shop Boys – Love Etc98 Kode9 - Black Sun / 2 Far Gone 99 YACHT - Psychic City 100 Fever Ray - If I Had a Heart
Albumshttp://www.soundopinions.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=22438
1 Animal Collective - Merriweather post pavillion2 phoenix - wolfgang amadeus phoenix3 Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest4 XX - XX5 Converge - Axe to fall6 Dirty Projectors - Bitte Orca7 neko case - middle cyclone8 The-Dream – Love vs. Money9 Flaming Lips - Embryonic10 Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions11 Fever Ray - Fever Ray12 Weezer - Raditude13 Handsome Furs – Face Control14 Raekwon – Only Built For Cuban Linx II15 yeah yeah yeahs - it's blitz!16 super furry animals - dark days / light years17 sunset rubdown - dragonslayer18 St. Vincent - Actor19 bill callahan - sometimes i wish we were an eagle20 Akron/Family – Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free21 Dinosaur Jr. - Farm22 Bat For Lashes - Two Suns23 mastodon - crack the skye24 dj quik and kurupt - blaqkout25 reigning sound - love and curses26 Shackleton - The Three EPs27 JJ – jjn0228 pains of being pure at heart - s/t29 Girls – Album30 baroness - the blue album31 Future of the Left - Travels with myself and another32 Antlers - Hospice33 Metric - Fantasies34 Sonic Youth - The Eternal35 Tim Hecker - An Imaginary Country36 Memory Tapes – Seek Magic37 Pavement Ist Rad & The Lots Of People Posting All Starr Band (Feat. Trai'd) - Sing Vampire Weekend's Contra38 Morrissey – Years Of Refusal39 Camera Obscura - My Maudlin Career40 Field - Yesterday & Today41 Passion Pit – Manners42 Wilco, Wilco (The Album)43 Electrik Red – How To Be A Lady Vol. 144 japandroids - post-nothing45 Annie – Don’t Stop46 Micachu and The Shapes – Jewellery47 Califone - All My Friends Are Funeral Singers48 Decemberists - The hazards of love49 Fuck Buttons - Tarot sport50 Junior Boys - Begone Dull care51 Kylesa - Static Tensions52 James Blackshaw - The Glass Bead Game53 Horrors - Primary Colours54 Oneida - Rated O55 atlas sound - logos56 mos def - the ecstatic57 Cymbals Eat Guitars - Why There Are Mountains58 Cobalt - Gin59 Krallice - Dimensional Bleedthrough60 Atom™ - Liedgut61 Julian Casablancas – Phrazes for the Young62 Emeralds - Emeralds63 Juan MacLean – The Future Will Come64 arctic monkeys - humbug65 Jay Reatard – Watch Me Fall66 dan deacon - bromst67 Fanfarlo – Reservoir68 maxwell - blacksummer's night69 Isis - Wavering Radiant70 Avett Brothers – I And Love And You71 Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers72 A Sunny Day in Glasgow - Ashes Grammar73 Thermals - Now We Can See74 Antony and The Johnsons - The Crying Light75 Martyn - Great Lengths76 m. ward - hold time77 Few Nolder - New Folder78 wild beasts - two dancers79 franz ferdinand - tonight80 Them Crooked Vultures -S/T81 Fun – Aim and Ignite82 why? - eskimo snow83 mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away84 Pet Shop Boys – Yes85 pissed jeans - king of jeans86 Black Dog – Further Vexations87 Andrew Bird – Noble Beast88 Big Pink - a Brief history of love89 Mumford and Sons – Sigh No More90 Thee Oh Sees - Help91 Fiery Furnaces - I'm going away92 Built To Spill - There Is No Enemy93 HEALTH - Get color94 Vivian Girls – Everything Goes Wrong95 A.C. Newman - Get Guilty96 DâM-FunK – Toeachizown97 Bibio - Ambivalence Avenue98 yo la tengo - popular songs99 Black to Comm - Alphabet 1968100 Lightning Bolt - Earthly Delights
― Mitchell Stirling, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 13:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Mitchell, please explain: 37 Pavement Ist Rad & The Lots Of People Posting All Starr Band (Feat. Trai'd) - Sing Vampire Weekend's Contra
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 13:16 (fourteen years ago) link
I like to think this is some sort of weird joke meme we should all run with.
― Tim F, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 13:28 (fourteen years ago) link
I will try, essentially it's the boarder 'Pavement Ist Rad' who produced a rick-roll of Vampire Weekend's Contra. {see http://www.soundopinions.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=22104) in October which was plainly not the new VW album but managed to fool a few people out of the 4000 that downloaded it via one mediafire link. the wiki page for Contra was changed to say that the album leaked in October etc. Best explained by internet user 'Duff' in it's accompanying blurb on SOMB.
More than a few skeptical eyes meet the high placement of this record, no doubt, and reasonably so. There's no getting around the fact that this long player was constructed essentially as a rickroll set to ensnare a few thousand innocent fans of pleasant Talking Heads-biting North American Indie Rock®. Much to the dismay of these victims, the similarities between this record and the forth-coming release from the Ivy League's Vampire Weekend end roughly twenty seconds into each track, giving way typically to either John Lennon or someone doing a terrible job of pretending to be John Lennon. But while we all enjoy a joke at some twee fucker's expense from time to time, there's something at work here other than the spectacle of minor internet terrorism.I mean, yeah, Sing Vampire Weekend's Contra is filled to the brim with inside jokes, some of which can only possibly be appreciated by a few dudes on a Jim Derogatis fansite spinoff board. But some of the finest moments have much broader appeal, striking suddenly with Earth-shattering absurdity. Track 2 ending with the dramatic final notes of "Day In the Life." A rousing and goofy cover of "Sgt. Pepper's" with the words, "Let me introduce to you/ the one and only Billy Corgan," spontaneously giving way to Bullet With Butterfly Wings. The bubbly synths, meowing samples, and boatloads of sass oozing from the forthcoming smash single "Dance Pussy Dance," later reprised with a chopped and screwed version. The guitar intros from The Toadies' "Possum Kingdom" and Everclear's "Santa Monica" dueling to the death and both losing to The Twisted Misters in a Greg-Gillis e-induced nightmare. Scores of crackpot genius moments like this, aimed at any fan of rock and roll with a random and encyclopedic knowledge of the last 40 years of pop music, all raising the same basic question:Why?Why on Earth make a record like this? If the beginning and end of the project was just to piss off some rabid music pirates with questionable taste, the thirty second intro to each song followed by two or three minutes of Neil Young awkwardly repeating "Vampire Weekend" (or is it "vaym-par pecan?") surely would have sufficed, and I'm sure it would've been a hell of a lot less work. But that's not what we have here. What we have here is what sounds like The Jesus Lizard covering Wings suddenly interrupted by a shitty vocal recording spliced in of some dude singing the noise guitar part. We have Satan winning souls for NPR. We have Dave fucking Grohl. Why make a record like this? For the love of pop music, and for the love all the solid bros of all sexes that gather here, or fuck, anywhere really, to discuss their irrational attachment to a bunch of rhythmic and melodic sound recordings, for all the bullshitting and ballbusting that inevitably follows, for the friendships that color our lives. Sure, not many people out there give much of fuck about how Jasper "EZ" Hitchen feels about Hipinion or Patron, regardless of how auto-tuned his voice is (mother fucker still hasn't heard this damn record yet. smfh). But anyone who comes across this record does so in the pursuit of life-affirming pop music in this young century, and surely gives a fuck about the love of music, and about those they share it with.
I mean, yeah, Sing Vampire Weekend's Contra is filled to the brim with inside jokes, some of which can only possibly be appreciated by a few dudes on a Jim Derogatis fansite spinoff board. But some of the finest moments have much broader appeal, striking suddenly with Earth-shattering absurdity. Track 2 ending with the dramatic final notes of "Day In the Life." A rousing and goofy cover of "Sgt. Pepper's" with the words, "Let me introduce to you/ the one and only Billy Corgan," spontaneously giving way to Bullet With Butterfly Wings. The bubbly synths, meowing samples, and boatloads of sass oozing from the forthcoming smash single "Dance Pussy Dance," later reprised with a chopped and screwed version. The guitar intros from The Toadies' "Possum Kingdom" and Everclear's "Santa Monica" dueling to the death and both losing to The Twisted Misters in a Greg-Gillis e-induced nightmare. Scores of crackpot genius moments like this, aimed at any fan of rock and roll with a random and encyclopedic knowledge of the last 40 years of pop music, all raising the same basic question:
Why?
Why on Earth make a record like this? If the beginning and end of the project was just to piss off some rabid music pirates with questionable taste, the thirty second intro to each song followed by two or three minutes of Neil Young awkwardly repeating "Vampire Weekend" (or is it "vaym-par pecan?") surely would have sufficed, and I'm sure it would've been a hell of a lot less work. But that's not what we have here. What we have here is what sounds like The Jesus Lizard covering Wings suddenly interrupted by a shitty vocal recording spliced in of some dude singing the noise guitar part. We have Satan winning souls for NPR. We have Dave fucking Grohl. Why make a record like this? For the love of pop music, and for the love all the solid bros of all sexes that gather here, or fuck, anywhere really, to discuss their irrational attachment to a bunch of rhythmic and melodic sound recordings, for all the bullshitting and ballbusting that inevitably follows, for the friendships that color our lives. Sure, not many people out there give much of fuck about how Jasper "EZ" Hitchen feels about Hipinion or Patron, regardless of how auto-tuned his voice is (mother fucker still hasn't heard this damn record yet. smfh). But anyone who comes across this record does so in the pursuit of life-affirming pop music in this young century, and surely gives a fuck about the love of music, and about those they share it with.
― Mitchell Stirling, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
alright, if we're all posting our own here now:
http://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2009/12/narrowcasts-top-50-albums-of-2009-part_30.htmlhttp://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2009/12/narrowcasts-top-50-albums-of-2009-part.htmlhttp://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2009/12/narrowcasts-top-50-singles-of-2009-part_23.htmlhttp://narrowcast.blogspot.com/2009/12/narrowcasts-top-50-singles-of-2009-part.html
― EUKANUBA CRAZY DOG JUMPIN THRU YO HURDLE (some dude), Tuesday, 5 January 2010 15:11 (fourteen years ago) link
crackers is biters
― max, Tuesday, 5 January 2010 15:12 (fourteen years ago) link